I was worried I wouldn't find a character in Rivals 2 I would like to play, but Loxodont speaks to my very soul. Now all I need is that chef skin so I can cook people (...or perform some horrible spaghetti).

@marcelovianna8352

2 ай бұрын

I was feeling the same way. As a Bowser main in SSBU i was having a character crysis... until now

@firstwaddledee9182

22 күн бұрын

Do I have good news for you

@LazarNaskov

22 күн бұрын

@@firstwaddledee9182 They've made the skin purchasable?

@firstwaddledee9182

22 күн бұрын

@@LazarNaskov oh wait, I misread this. I thought you were wanting there to be a chef skin (the existence of I was referring to), not wanting the one that already exists to be purchasable. That’s my bad.

@LazarNaskov

22 күн бұрын

@@firstwaddledee9182 Ah, no worries. I posted this not long after Chef Loxo was announced, so I was aware that it existed. Fantastic skin, 10/10 no notes

I love how this video addresses the elephant in the room

@romanlorimer9728

3 ай бұрын

Good one

@kf_isher1149

2 ай бұрын

dad ?

Loxodont does what Dedede don’t…no Wait

@atWisely

3 ай бұрын

We'll keep workshopping it

"Dedede if he locked-in" -- Dan Fornace, unprompted.

I wish you delved into his meatball a bit more. A huge part of his gameplan IMO is redirecting it with your own attacks which rewards experimentation and knowledge on ur end to get correct trajectories. Fantastic video!

@atWisely

3 ай бұрын

I just haven't seen enough people using it well yet so I didn't feel confident talking about it more beyond the basics. I think you're right it'll be super important as the game develops though!

@kennylee1155

2 ай бұрын

P

So he's mix of Dedede and Ganon, but with a more controllable version of Wario's down special.

For some reason the chapter titles carried over from the last video I watched, so I’m at 1:37 and apparently this demonstration of Loxodont’s kit is titled “Woman Wishes ‘Good Luck!’ to Man She Allegedly Paid to Murder Her Ex-Husband”

@atWisely

3 ай бұрын

No, that's in my script

The reason I like Loxodont so much is because his design philosophy is one very deeply inspired by traditional fighters, yet adapted perfectly to a platform fighter genre. The combination of strong footsies, meter gain and slow moving projectiles to condition opponents, then absolutely blowing them out of the water with flashy specials and cash outs is just so perfect.

It feels weird seeing people who know about Loxodont's existence that aren't Rivals ultra-nerds.

Just stumbled across this video and this game, and I just have to compliment you on how incredibly tightly edited and scripted this video is! Like holy heck this is professional as all get out

Ah yes, the character who basically knocks the Rivals 2 contest character I made out of the running for Rivals 2 entirely. He looks sick as hell, but man... it hurts accidentally creating a character who ended up massively overlapping with Loxodont due to not knowing the character was gonna be in the base roster (For additional context, I'm ArtistOfSeer, one of the devs who worked on Vakna for the Rivals 2 contest, who is also a mid ranger heavy weight who manipulates magma, but is more so based off of Ridley than Dedede)

@atWisely

3 ай бұрын

That sucks :( I'll make sure to check out Vakna!

@illusionaryheart3325

3 ай бұрын

You were one of the ones I was rooting for! It was a shame when Lox was revealed and I realized that it make it really unlikely

@ShinxBOOM247

2 ай бұрын

@atWisely I'd honestly recommend giving the other Rivals 2 contest characters a look at some point, not just Vakna. There's a ton of really well made characters that people put their hearts and souls into, so they're definitely worth your time.

The flow in these videos are great. Good editing and writing while giving good explanations

Pretty sure loxo actually can get throw confirms! Dan talked about a unique mechanic with loxo where his down throw (which normally just sets opponents down into a tech situation a la snake) becomes a combo throw if he's standing on magma. This pops them up similar to Zetterburn's down throw, meaning he gets some juicy confirms into moves like back air and down b. Since he can spawn magma with his special pummel, you can set up kill confirms if the opponent doesn't guess right, or at least a guessing game between down throw and forward throw (which sweetspots if you DI out). Absolutely sick character, and great video!

he´s like a mix of king dd, ike and ganon, i love it

as a dedede main i finally found a platform fighter with a character that speaks to me. funny long ass strongs and crazy disjoints. also a funny projectile

Finally, an axe wielding republican in a platform fighter

Awesome vid. I didn't get much time to play him cause the beta was right on my finals week, but I really loved my time with loxodont and this was a really cool way to glimpse at what the rest of the community was doing with him.

A WISE video idea

I think you both under- and over-sold ftilt 1. If you don't cancel into ftilt 2 no follow-up is true and anyone can mash out with a jab or buffer shield/spot dodge in the middle of your pressure if they know it's coming (it's too fast to react to), which sounds like it's bad, but there is SO much RPS potential. Until they figure out it's not true you can loop ftilt 1 > jab, as they hold the opponent in front of you when used together. And once they do figure out it's not true, you can to hit them with every mix in the book: ftilt 1 > grab, ftilt 1 > shield, ftilt 1 > spot dodge, hell hit 'em with ftilt 1 > full hop > pick-a-move if you're feeling ballsy. My opinions on this move were a roller coaster last beta weekend, going back and forth between loving and hating it. But I think it's settled into being my favorite move, even more than his rocket jump (which is saying a lot)

@Twisted_Logic

3 ай бұрын

Btw, in case you're curious, the timing for ftilt 1 > jab is to press attack just after his ears swing back forward.

damned if loxodo, damned if you loxodont

Yeah thats a very Rivals character

note: u can jab reset with the empty down b. this is known as the shart reset

Guys, imagine if Ganondorf was an actual character with unique and interesting moves

I'm so excited for Loxodont, I don't really play heavies in RoA but the weight of his massive moves looks so satisfying, and I like lob projectiles (Ori main here) and he looks like in a world where everybody gets some cheese, he's just gonna play fundamentals better than you and stright up body you

my clip is in here pog

@atWisely

3 ай бұрын

It was a good clip!

love me some elephants

Loxodont looks like a lot of fun. My problem with his design is that it's unintuitive. If a video game character puts magma on the ground, opponents should take damage from walking on it. If a video game character has a mechanic where the spend time armoring themselves, the armor should enhance their durability in some way.

The Homestuck music kicking in after you mentioned time travel…

@atWisely

3 ай бұрын

What does this mean

@interdimensionalgoober8769

3 ай бұрын

@@atWiselyat 0:51, elevatorstuck kicks in. In Homestuck, the webcomic, elevatorstuck is a running gag in which nonchalant elevator music plays over scenes of Caliborn, a time traveling megalomaniacal dictator with a penitent for cybernetics demolishes people. It later became a general gag to play it in tonally inappropriate scenes. Given how much of Homestuck revolves around time travel, and the mention of robots, its a surprisingly spot on song choice. If that wasn’t intentional, you are very lucky. One might say you have all the luck, even.

Thanks for this video! I'm gonna try to make Rivals 2 my platform fighter of choice, and Loxo's gonna be my first character.

Idk if you want to do this, but i think it may be helpful to say who is the most similer from a different game. Im sure people are gonna watch these video to try to figure out who they wanna play. So if you were to say that zetturburn is like pm wolf, it could give people an more visual example of how the character plays

@atWisely

3 ай бұрын

I usually have that in each video itself (at least briefly), do you mean like one video that covers every character specifically on playstyle comparisons?

@Zazzles1280

3 ай бұрын

@@atWisely yeah I think that would be very beneficial

Good video! Couldn't put Lox down last beta weekend cause he was too fun. Hopefully, I'll have time to try at least 1 other character this time around.

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAH I FOUND MY MAIN

I very much appreciate this video, especially as someone who didnt play Rivals 1. Where can I find similar resources for other characters? Hopefully here soon? :)

@atWisely

3 ай бұрын

I'm planning on making one for each R2 character, and I'm going to keep making stuff for platform fighters & fighting games in general too

@HIIMROSS777

3 ай бұрын

He mentioned in a community post he was thinking about making them for the returning rivals characters. I think its a great idea since so many people who haven't played R1 are here, also an excuse to talk about the changes the characters got going into R2, even though there aren't all that many.

We love BRC

I really need to find good, consistent ways to set up down special combos. I struggle really hard online with this character and I'm guessing that not being able to effectively use that part of him lets opponents feel much more open to aggressive play vs me

JUST TAKE MY FUCKING WALLET ALREADY JESUS CHRIST

very excited about this character! but he doesn't at all look like a robot lmao

@elemangell2981

Ай бұрын

That’s him in the future! He shed his mortal body to become an invincible endless emperor. He’ll 100% have the robot body as a skin though.

Are u on the Rivals Discord? I highly recommend it if you're trying to understand the lore or even some of the technical discussions of this game

this character’s got me super worried for the full release

@curse5697

Күн бұрын

why

0:50 WISELY ARE YOU A HOMESTUCK FAN?? OR MAYBE THE EDITOR? (I literally took 500 psychic damage hearing this music ajfdhbg)

@atWisely

3 ай бұрын

LOL I worked with an assistant editor on this one (usually I'm solo) and they added that. We literally talked about how I didn't know it was a reference

@Giroh_

3 ай бұрын

god im so glad it worked

@why3994

3 ай бұрын

@@Giroh_ LMAOO i straight up recoiled in my chair

Great video Wisely, if there was a heart instead of a like button I'd spam it.❤

1:56 I fucking hate it here T-T

@atWisely

3 ай бұрын

You were at 30% 🥲

@MilfSlayr

3 ай бұрын

damn imagine watching a video and u see yourself get clipped 😭. that's tough bro

@HastyMang0

3 ай бұрын

@@atWisely I was indeed at 30%, I indeed miss spaced a dash dance and I indeed died at 30 for getting hit

loxodoesn't

Not bad.

smh didn't even talk about how his wife left him 😔 seriously tho, awesome video!

2:01 puffydontneedcombs?

This character is so not fun to play against... he's just so good

@jfrogfoot

3 ай бұрын

just a low skill floor honestly which is why other games make heavyweights worse. seems like rivals wanted to be different so bad but like there is a reason heavyweights aren’t given all of this stuff… he is a brawler with a crazy punish game that can force you to approach and out range most of the roster

@BboP_

2 ай бұрын

Cap. It’s too early to say this; everyone’s still figuring out the roster.

Is the orca coming? or not

@illusionaryheart3325

3 ай бұрын

Orcane will probably be one of the characters available at launch if they aren't the character added for the July test. Devs said they plan on getting all the characters that were in the first game into rivals 2 eventually (Besides the guest characters)

Wait I thought Loxodont killed _Zetterburns_ dad and blamed it on Forsburn?

@atWisely

3 ай бұрын

Forsburn and Zetterburn are brothers!

@612minigun

3 ай бұрын

@@atWisely Wait I thought Forsburn was Adopted?

@atWisely

3 ай бұрын

Yeah, but they still have the same dad

How to download

@jenniferjones9695

Ай бұрын

I’m pretty sure access is given to specific people so I don’t think you could get it right now

@curse5697

Күн бұрын

​@@jenniferjones9695 nah you can actually just buy the beta access, go to their pledge page and you'll find $50 option, that's it

Mate I would REALLY like to see you get your health in order. You only have one body. Show it some respect.

12 views in 6 minutes? Wisely fell off